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enhttp://wmot.org/feeds/12056/rss.xmlWhat Do Bears And Bulls Have To Do With Our Investments?http://wmot.org/post/what-do-bears-and-bulls-have-do-our-investments
Stock markets rallied Friday, but the year hasn't started off so great for Wall Street — the Dow Jones industrial average was down more than 500 points for a bit on Wednesday, the Standard & Poor's 500 index has dropped about 7 percent this month, and markets around the world have lost trillions(!) of dollars in value.<p>Some experts predict we are headed for — <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/are-we-already-in-a-bear-market">if not already in</a> — a bear market, or one in which prices are falling and investors start selling aggressively.<p>But, let's explore something elseFri, 22 Jan 2016 19:24:00 +0000Tanya Ballard Brown61152 at http://wmot.orgWhat Do Bears And Bulls Have To Do With Our Investments?Totem Pole Stolen 84 Years Ago By Actor John Barrymore Goes Home http://wmot.org/post/totem-pole-stolen-84-years-ago-actor-john-barrymore-goes-home
A totem pole stolen by actor John Barrymore in 1931 that later ended up as a yard decoration for actor Vincent Price was returned to Alaska tribal members on Thursday.<p>The Associated Press reports that the stolen pole was one of more than 100 that once stood in the old village of Tuxecan on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, which was inhabited by the Tlingit people.<p>Barrymore — grandfather of actress Drew Barrymore — took the approximately 40-foot-tall totem pole from an unoccupied village during a yacht trip along the Alaska coast in 1931.Fri, 23 Oct 2015 11:04:00 +0000Tanya Ballard Brown58207 at http://wmot.orgTotem Pole Stolen 84 Years Ago By Actor John Barrymore Goes Home New Delhi Steers Residents To Park Cars So Residents Can Breathe Easierhttp://wmot.org/post/new-delhi-steers-residents-park-cars-so-residents-can-breathe-easier
New Delhi officials urged drivers to park their cars and use public transportation Thursday, in a new effort to combat air pollution.<p>A major road closed for five hours and residents were encouraged to take public transportation, the Associated Press reported.<p>Arvind Kejriwal, chief minister of the state of Delhi, and his cabinet colleagues, led cyclists along the four-mile-long route, on the first of what will be a series of days aimed at cleaning the city's air.<p>Kejriwal told AP:<p><blockquote><p>"All of us have to do our bit to decongest the roads and to reduce pollution.Thu, 22 Oct 2015 09:08:00 +0000Tanya Ballard Brown58146 at http://wmot.orgNew Delhi Steers Residents To Park Cars So Residents Can Breathe EasierAs Twitter Flirts With Hearts, Will You Miss The Stars?http://wmot.org/post/twitter-flirts-hearts-will-you-miss-stars
Some Twitter users pulled up their feed Tuesday and saw changes involving the reply, retweet and "fav" buttons.<p>The main change — which many Android users <a href="http://9to5google.com/2015/06/17/twitter-android-hearts-test/">got to see a few weeks ago</a> — is the star icon that turns gold when you favorite a tweet is now a heart icon (<a href="http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2015/07/28/dont-mess-with-the-fav/">TheNextWeb.com has screengrabs</a>), which was confusing to at least a few tweeters.Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:53:00 +0000Tanya Ballard Brown55077 at http://wmot.orgDid You Know It's Legal In Most States To Discriminate Against LGBT People?http://wmot.org/post/activists-urge-states-protect-civil-rights-lgbt-people
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court hears arguments on same-sex marriage, which is now legal in about three dozen states.<p>But it's also legal in most states to discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender — LGBT — people in the areas of employment, housing and public accommodation.<p>So in many states, a person could marry someone of the same gender and then get fired for being gay.<p>"Most states have no nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people," says David Stacy, government affairs director for the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay-rights group.Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:26:00 +0000Tanya Ballard Brown51734 at http://wmot.orgDid You Know It's Legal In Most States To Discriminate Against LGBT People?